__/ [ nessuno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ] on Tuesday 04 July 2006 13:58 \__
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> A second class-action lawsuit filed in less than a week against
> Microsoft alleges that a central pillar of the company's anti-piracy
> effort - installed automatically on millions of computers - amounts
> to spyware.
>
> [But first lawsuit is losing strength...]
>
> The second suit, filed Friday on behalf of a group of Washington
> businesses and individuals, appears to refer to a test version of
> Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA), a Microsoft program that is designed
> to check whether a user is running a legitimate copy of the company's
> operating system software.
>
> Before it was updated, WGA "phoned home" to Microsoft servers once a
> day, delivering information about a user's computer and operating
> system. This daily communication was not disclosed when WGA was
> installed and fits the definition of spyware offered by at least two
> computer security groups, the Washington suit alleges.
>
> It also states that users who elected to receive automatic updates from
> Microsoft "received WGA without user action, as though it was a
> critical security update - which it is not."
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http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2003103175_microsoft04.html
If two class-action lawsuit are successful, will Windows users receive double
the damages? *grin*
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